Tenebrae – 10 July 2026
After several days of hot weather the evening temperature was showing no signs of easing and St Peter’s Church, Stockbridge was no longer a cool refuge. Tenebrae, one of the world’s leading chamber choirs (eight women and seven men), had already given a lunchtime concert in the church and were now preparing to take us…
Andrew Lumsden: organ – 22 May 2026
French organ music from the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century: maybe we are listening to one of those grand Parisian organs – St Sulpice? La Trinité? Notre-Dame? Possibly not, for now we have the nasal, reedy sound of a Dutch organ… and now there’s a strong reminiscence of an…
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) and Simon Callaghan (piano) – 13 March 2026
A recital by two outstanding musicians was guaranteed to fill St Peter’s Church in Stockbridge and Raphael Wallfisch and Simon Callaghan did not disappoint. Beethoven’s third cello sonata was played with poise and authority, the two players responding to one another in an almost conversational manner as the phrases passed between them. Wallfisch has a…
Stockbridge Music: Bach Winchester Voices & Orchestra Sunday 7 December 2025
J. S. Bach at Christmas Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the cornerstones of Western classical music, a cultural giant whose influence spreads into areas such as jazz and rock and whose music is constantly plundered by a multitude of creative artists seeking inspiration for their own output. Connoisseurs of Bach’s music will immediately have…
Leia Zhu Violin, Friday 14 November 2025
Imagine giving your first professional concert when the rest of your peers are just starting at primary school or performing with the London Symphony Orchestra when your peers are contemplating their GCSE exams: this is the extraordinary talent of violinist Leia Zhu, who has just turned nineteen and wowed the audience in St Peter’s Church,…
Music for Two Harpsichords – David Hill MBE and David Ponsford
One might be forgiven for thinking that two harpsichords playing together in a resonant acoustic would just produce a mass of sound, especially when realising the complex layers that comprise the music of J. S. Bach, but here in St Peter’s Church, Stockbridge it could not have been more different. Two beautiful double-manual instruments, one…
VOCES8
Review of VOCES8 at Stockbridge Music, 9 May 2025 VOCES8’s reputation for fabulous ensemble singing ensured a capacity, enthusiastic audience at St Peter’s Church, Stockbridge on 9 May and the concert given by the a capella ensemble sold out so quickly that a matinée had to be added to the evening performance. Owing to a…
David Owen Norris 7 March 2025
The 2025 season of Stockbridge Music concerts burst into life on Friday 7 March, when a packed St Peter’s Church relished a programme of music played on an eighteenth-century square piano by David Owen Norris. The instrument and the music were chosen with an eye to the Jane Austen celebrations of this year. The instrument…
Paul Turner, Piano – Friday 8 November
It is every concert promoter’s worst fear when an artist cancels a concert due to illness – finding replacements at short notice is never easy. Imagine then the problem when the replacement artist also has to cancel. Thus on Friday night the audience arrived to hear, not to the expected song recital, but a complete…
Review: The Craig Ogden Ensemble, A Baroque Journey towards the Goldberg Variations, 17 May 2024
Stockbridge Music continues to enrich our musical lives. The Craig Ogden Ensemble attracted an audience from as far away as Wales for their concert in May. In the first half, David Juritz (violin), Craig Ogden (guitar) and Adrian Bradbury (cello) played a succession of delightful, short baroque pieces from composers across Europe during the 17th…